I couldn't care less about LTE tbh. Speeds of 3G/H are good enough for browsing and streaming videos etc. and the coverage is still **** poor not to mention the prices and besides I always have wifi around me anyway
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I couldn't care less about LTE tbh. Speeds of 3G/H are good enough for browsing and streaming videos etc. and the coverage is still **** poor not to mention the prices and besides I always have wifi around me anyway
It's completely bat **** crazy (in a good way!).
That's just obscenely aggressive pricing. You could be giving out free phones on £10 contracts.
The only potential downside is it being viewed as a cheap device and thus low quality. But christ, sub £300.. Seriously? People can think it's cheap all they like, extra £250 in the back pocket from an iPhone 5.. It's nearly half the price!!
Google, WTF?!
Man of Honour
Don't you say this about every phone/tablet release and end up getting one anyway?
This time I mean it, maybe.
Soldato
I couldn't care less about LTE tbh. Speeds of 3G/H are good enough for browsing and streaming videos etc. and the coverage is still **** poor not to mention the prices and besides I always have wifi around me anyway
Yeah but at this points there really not much more the next phone will offer, this thing has everything covered, nfc, wireless charging both being future tech I would also like LTE so I could keep this bad boy for atleast 2 years no problem. 3g speeds are good enough but I just wanted everything, but at £279 being almost half of what the iPhone5 is hahahaha no questions asked here just buy.
Don
The pricing is incredible. We're talking used S3 money for something that's better and new.
I shall pre order one as soon as I can. Love Nexus devices although I ten bot to keep them for long.
I shall pre order one as soon as I can. Love Nexus devices although I ten bot to keep them for long.
This was never going to have LTE support, it would require google to produce too many different sets for all sorts of places in the world. They wanted to produce one device that works everywhere.
If I'm honest LTE doesn't bother me in the least, for my current 3G usage I never find myself thinking "Gee wish I could browse this site faster" and with the current LTE prices there's no way you can do any media streaming anyway.
We all need to keep our eye out for the exact hour these come up for purchase, I am guessing they will sell out pretty quickly.
If I'm honest LTE doesn't bother me in the least, for my current 3G usage I never find myself thinking "Gee wish I could browse this site faster" and with the current LTE prices there's no way you can do any media streaming anyway.
We all need to keep our eye out for the exact hour these come up for purchase, I am guessing they will sell out pretty quickly.
Soldato
Yes, that's possible, but then you lose the "only one item in my pocket to worry about" factor. I could go back to storing several GB of important (to me) backup data on a USB stick, but that feels like a step backwards.
I guess I just get frustrated sometimes. If my cheap & somewhat nasty Samsung Apollo can manage an SD card why not a device like this? They must have cut a few corners to keep the price down, but these days -- especially on a device capable of decent photography and video -- I want expandable storage.
Maybe I'm just looking for an excuse not to spend more then £100 on a phone. The last few hours may turn out to have been an idle daydream.
Soldato
Yes, that's possible, but then you lose the "only one item in my pocket to worry about" factor. I could go back to storing several GB of important (to me) backup data on a USB stick, but that feels like a step backwards.
I guess I just get frustrated sometimes. If my cheap & somewhat nasty Samsung Apollo can manage an SD card why not a device like this? They must have cut a few corners to keep the price down, but these days -- especially on a device capable of decent photography and video -- I want expandable storage.
Maybe I'm just looking for an excuse not to spend more then £100 on a phone. The last few hours may turn out to have been an idle daydream.
the original Optimus G didn't have a SD card but the version raped by AT&T did so it can be done. My thought is that Apple doesn't do it and they sell millions so OEM use that as an excuse to keep it out as well, they don't need to think about it or were they need to place it and gives them a cleaner unibody design.
Google music really fixes the storage issue, you can quickly and easily select a few GB's of your music libraries to store on your device and change them out at any time for a different lot. I am already doing this and it works really well!
Google music really fixes the storage issue, you can quickly and easily select a few GB's of your music libraries to store on your device and change them out at any time for a different lot. I am already doing this and it works really well!
In a few years maybe, but with data caps and patchy network coverage it's just not up to the job, yet. It's getting there though.
Soldato
Google music really fixes the storage issue, you can quickly and easily select a few GB's of your music libraries to store on your device and change them out at any time for a different lot. I am already doing this and it works really well!
This, coming from an iPod I was always used to carrying everything around from since I was 7 (1997 baby
) but once I got my S2 I just noticed the amount of music I actual listen to is so small and the rest can just be up in the skies 
I'm talking about selecting a couple of gigs over your wifi connection. I keep about 3GB of music on my device currently from my 18GB music collection, it is all in the cloud and I can quickly and easily change out music over my wifi connection before I leave the house.
Fair enough, I was talking about having it all on the phone and not having to spend the time picking and choosing.
Google music really fixes the storage issue, you can quickly and easily select a few GB's of your music libraries to store on your device and change them out at any time for a different lot. I am already doing this and it works really well!
Yup I also use google music now, besides I only have like 2GB of music in total!
Soldato
so very tempting to sell my gs2 for £150 and go for the 8gb nexus4.. i have 12gb free on my gs2 so storage not an issue. i use google music too
what to do
how is it that cheap?
what to do
how is it that cheap?
Soldato
You could easily trim down your music I'm sure there is a huge % you haven't or wont listen to for a long time. I know its lame not having everything but you could just keep the best in the cloud if you ever do need it.
so very tempting to sell my gs2 for £150 and go for the 8gb nexus4.. i have 12gb free on my gs2 so storage not an issue. i use google music too
what to do
how is it that cheap?
In the same boat but my S2 only has 2gb free so Ill go for the 16GB version. Google pays for it I would guess, Good guy Google eh
Soldato
so very tempting to sell my gs2 for £150 and go for the 8gb nexus4..
what to do
how is it that cheap?
Google are probably selling it somewhere near cost and propping it up with the profits from advertising and content. This is what they do with the Nexus tablets, and what Amazon do with the Kindle devices.